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...Pony Express and start a legend that is still galloping. Last week, while towns along the oldtime route were restoring some of the legendary landmarks, cinema's hardest-riding Western star, resolute, weather-beaten Buck Jones, was blazing the trail again for the younger generation. Pledged to abstain from profanity and hard liquor, Buck and his heck-for-leather pony riders yippee forth on their foam-flecked ponies, carry the mail on schedule though redskins and mustachioed villains do their durndest to bar the way. As memorable history, The Overland Express beats schoolbooks hollow...
...educators. The yearbook denounced meddling with teachers' freedom, cited patriotic groups, Government officials, a contract one teacher had to sign to get a job paying $637.50 a year in North Carolina: "I promise to take a vital interest in all phases of Sunday-school work. ... I promise to abstain from all dancing, immodest dressing and other conduct unbecoming a teacher and a lady. I promise not to go out with any young man except in so far as it may be necessary to stimulate Sunday-school work. I promise not to fall in love, to become engaged or secretly...
Like many other psychological religionists, devotees of the Mighty I AM Presence believe in self-improvement. Like Mormons, they abstain from alcohol, narcotics, tobacco. They also abjure onions and garlic, feeling that their odors are repugnant to the Ascended Masters to whom they pray. Furthermore, they do not keep pets in their houses. People who follow these precepts and live an "I AM Presence-like life" are called "Hundred Percenters." Meeting in I AM reading rooms and auditoriums-of which there are five in California, two in Florida, others in Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia-these Hundred Percenters pray together, believe their...
Work would begin by negotiating a series of mutual pledges by which states would "bind themselves to abstain from a certain number of practices contrary to the interests of the community of participants" and further "bind themselves one toward the other to take up and to examine in a spirit of understanding and mutual assistance the problems and difficulties arising in their economic relations...
Although it was only recently that the Monthly made its reappearance upon the Harvard journalistic field, that is no excuse for resorting to such cheap methods of gaining notoriety. If the Monthly wishes to make itself better known as an undergraduate magazine, it should abstain from falsifications, and stick to the facts, as it will gain much more from being accurate. It is too bad that the magazine that was once so ably directed by such men as Santayana and George Baker should have been so careless...